Bob Hope Airport - Definition and Overview

Bob Hope Airport, formerly known as the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport, is located in Burbank, California, United States and to a degree, serves the Los Angeles, California metro-region. Its IATA airport code is BUR. Non-stop flights from the airport go exclusively to destinations within the western United States (including Hawaii).

In 2003, the authority which runs the airport voted on November 4^th to change the name to Bob Hope Airport, in honor of the late comedian Bob Hope, who died earlier in the year, and had kept his personal airplane there. The new name was unveiled on December 17 on the 100th anniversary of the Wright brothers' first flight in 1903, the year that Bob Hope was born.

Bob Hope Airport has one terminal. The Burbank train station, adjacent to the airport, is served by Amtrak and Metrolink.

In the film Nothing So Strange, Bill Gates is flown into this airport on a Microsoft jet before he makes his appearance in Macarthur Park in Los Angeles. There, Gates is shot and killed in a fictional assassination.

Main Terminal

• Alaska Airlines (Portland and Seattle)
• Aloha Airlines (Honolulu, Kahului and Reno)
• America West (Las Vegas and Phoenix)
• American Airlines (Dallas/Fort Worth)
• Delta Air Lines (Atlanta and Salt Lake City)
• Southwest Airlines (Las Vegas, Oakland, Sacramento, San Jose, Phoenix)
• United Airlines (Denver, San Francisco)

See also

• Glendale, California
• Pasadena, California

External links

• Burbank Airport homepage (http://www.bur.com/)